Carlos Gamez de Francisco is the winner of the 2021 Fischer Award for Visual Art and one of the Featured Artists in the 2021 LVA art[squared] Online Auction, so there was plenty to talk about! Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am.
Cuban-born artist Carlos Gamez de Fransisco is a painter, sculptor, photographer, and filmmaker who is interested in history and storytelling in his work. Gamez de Francisco uses a Baroque aesthetic with a sense of contemporary fashion to create portraits that blend historical references with a modern painterly approach. His work has been collected by the Evansville Museum, 21C Museum, the Fashion Resource Center at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cuba Ocho Museum and Performing Arts Center, Polanco’s Collection in Havana, Cuba, and Louisville’s Metro Hall.
Carlos is the winner of the 2021 Fischer Award for Visual Art, granted by the Community Foundation of Louisville and Louisville Visual Art. He is also one of the Featured Artists for the 2021 art[squared] Fundraiser